Two examples of bluff pressures (as opposed to real pressures) used by mediators to effect contract settlements are presented, along with advice to negotiators on avoiding or minimizing such tactics. (Author/IRT)

Presents an overview of the history, current status, and trends in federal sector labor relations as seen through the executive order system. (Author)

This paper develops the rationale for the utilization of a special board of inquiry in complex labor-management disputes when collective bargaining breaks down. (Author)

Explores the ways in which public referendums might be used in public employee labor relations. Two judgments are reached: whether the device could actually be implemented in New York City, and whether its use would be in the interest of sound public policy. (Author/IRT)

Reviews state labor legislation passed or debated in 1975 and early 1976. Also describes the impact of amending laws on the current labor picture and evident trends in public attitudes toward public employees. For availability, see EA 507 548. (Author)

Presents an overview of research into public teacher unionization. Describes the nature of research versus opinion, discusses types of existing research, and examines results and trends of some of the research done since 1962. (For availability see EA 507 083.) (Author/JG)

Presents an overview of the history, current status, and trends in state and local employee unionism, and the laws relating to bargaining in these sectors. Concludes that state and local laws and practices are following the pattern of federal public-sector labor relations, which are based on the private-sector. (Author/IRT)

To analyze the attitudes existing in the "right-to-work" states (primarily in the South and the West) that affect formalized employer-employee relationships, the researchers surveyed 122 presidents, chancellors, and chief academic officers in Texas public and private community and junior colleges. (Author/WD)

Reviews the state of the art of bargaining unit determination. Provides a summary table covering bargaining unit laws and their implementation in the 50 states. (Author)

This study lends support for the hypothesis that management attitudes toward the union have a strong influence on the success of the union-management relationship in the public sector. However, the causal direction of this correlation was not thoroughly determined. (Author)

This article is an account of winning the battle for collective bargaining in the state university system of Florida. (Author)

Reviews the legal rulings and statutes that have shaped public employee labor relations in Texas since the late 19th century. In the absence of one comprehensive labor/management act, Texas has many diverse laws and precedents that affect the public employee. Available from Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 43 Central Drive, Farmingdale, NY 11735;…

Responses received from 118 presidents of two-year and four-year institutions indicated their attitudes (pre-unionism and present) toward faculty performance, values, job security, academic freedom, salaries, and academic governance. Significant changes vary by institutional level, union affiliation, and period of unionization. Implications and…

An analysis of over 1,700 negotiations conducted by 289 Indiana school districts revealed that collective bargaining conversion from voluntary to compulsory mediation and factfinding sharply reduced the length of negotiations but had no effect in reducing the number of severely protracted negotiations. (MLF)